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Saudi Arabia Mathematical Competitions 2012

Saudi Arabia 2012 geometry

Problem

Let be a cyclic quadrilateral with and Prove that the midpoint of diagonal is on .

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Solution
Let be the intersection point of the diagonals and .



Since it follows that , and hence we have and . The quadrilateral is cyclic, so therefore . It follows , and by the Cosine Law we obtain The given relation is equivalent to and from (1) it follows . This implies that , and hence , where and are the altitudes of triangles and , respectively.

The triangles and are congruent, so , and we are done.

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